Stories
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Lemme see yer grills
Why settle for plain old pearly whites when you can adorn your teeth with a bespoke grill?
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Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition
Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.
- Interview
Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing
James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.
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Are doctors medical detectives?
Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.
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Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd
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A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 579912i- Books
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The life and memoirs of Mr. Ephraim Tristram Bates, commonly called Corporal Bates, a broken-hearted soldier: who, from a private centinel in the guards, was, from his merits, advanced, regularly, to be Corporal, Serjeant, and Pay-Master Serjeant; and had he lived a few Days longer, might have died a Commission-Officer, to the great Loss of his lamentable Lady, whose Marriage he had intended to declare as soon as his Commission was signed; and who, to make up for the Loss of so dear an Husband, and her Pension, which then no Duke on Earth could have hindered, in order to put Bread into the Mouths of seven small Children, the youngest now at her Breast, the sweet Creatures being two Twins, publishes these Memoirs from the original Papers, sealed up with the Seal of dear Mr. Bates, and found, exactly as he mentioned in his last Will and Testament, in an Oven, never used, where, in his Life time, he secreted many State Papers, &c. &c. &c.
Date: Anno MDCCLVI. [1756]- Videos
Goodnight Britain. Part 2.
Date: 2012
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A Soviet soldier dies of dysentery as a result of eating unwashed vegetables. Colour lithograph by M.V., 192-, for the Sanitarno-Prosvetitelʹno Otdel Sanchasta Zapfronta.
Date: [1920?]Reference: 535991i